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CHALLENGE RACE!
SATURDAY
OCT. 9
PO INT TO POINT LIME D FROM PA RKE R. AR IZONA
.Vacation on
the Colorado River
A tun packed _ . .kend o. r.cllllll
- PlusSwirnrninq " Ski inq " Fishing
Dancinq " or What-Have-You
most o f the h o t sh oes b u rned, but
fortunately for them no check was
waiting. T he middle o f th e loop was
fairly easy until th e course again turned
b ack in to t he h ills for th e las t check and
the rac e fo r t h e ·ho m e check in fr ee
t erritory.
.
Ribbon was a little sparse for the last
co uple of miles as the marking crew
broke down (t h e bikes not th e riders) . A
nice finish er pin awaited all who
completed th e cou rse. Mo st seem ed to
enjo y the ride .
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Re sults will be alo n g in a week or so .
Huntington Beach
Me Wild Hare
scrambles
By Terry Rezek
CAMP ROCK RD ., CAL, SEPT. 12
Wet and wild! The de sert racers'
erotic fantasy - wet sand! And
th e biggest bunny in the desert.
Two days o f rain resulted in th at
rarest of desert pheonmena - no dus t.
Combined that with a fast , well-marked
course and baby, y ou've got fun.
Not wanting to make it too easy for
the riders to catch the wild hare
(al tho ugh why anyone would want to
catch a bu nny that size is beyond m e)
HBMC started the co urse with a
four-mile sandwash, wherein lurked the
giant bike-eating whoop-de-does. I
know , they ate mine. At least with no
dust, you could see them
a
questionable blessing for sure. No big
u p hill s, no big downhills, even the usual
chop was fast. The only hazards were
encountered if you strayed from th e
course a n d discovered that the dry lakes
weren 't. Those who made this dis covery
would need a h elicopter to extract their
bike s now, o r d ynamite when the mud
dried.
The Bunglers and Land Manglers
stuc k their bu reau crat ic fin gers in the
desert mud an d declared it unsafe for
ride rs. T hey wan ted to p ull H BMC' s
permit as late as Frida y becau se th ey
(the BLM) didn 't wan t to be responsibl e
for all th ose riders getting stu ck in th e
desert. The qu estion is - sinc e when in
the history of the d esert, has the BLM
been responsible for a ny th ing? So me
l eary ne got iations an d Sat urday
morning co urse re -routing b y HBM C
all owed the rac e t o go o n as sched uled.
The cl u b sends m any th anks to th os e
people wh o co-op era ted and m o ved
their camps across t he ro ad . T he BLM
decided o ne sid e of the ro ad was
o ff-lim its.
Two m ont h s of heavy d u ty
scrou n gin g a n d pleading by HB MC
resulted in al most S10 ,O OO worth of
contingencies o f every variety . Every
finish er got somethin g neat at th e line ,
and there 's more t o be given out at the
trophy presentation.
With all this go ing on, th e ra ce was
al most incidental, almost, but not quit e .
With no dust and a super co urse, the
racers went bananas. Bruce Ogilvie
slipped in to th e lead on the backs id e of
t h e first loop , bu t had a humo ngous
crash before home check, letting Cordis
Brooks grab the lead which h e held to
th e finish , Dan Dawson came in third
o verall and 1I1"st Open Expert. First
around the course , however, was team
Husqvarna in their official ca n ti leve r
magnesium airplane. Since t he HBMC
didn't have an y co n ti nge ncies for first
airplane, maybe Mitch Mayes nd Larry
Roeseler will be on their bikes the next
time out.
With almost 20 classes and divisions,
it is impossible to report on all th e
action, especially from the bottom of a
sandwash. With the help of so m e
dedicated HBMC women, th e results
were tabulated an d ap p ear this week. To
anyone who stayed away because o f th e
ra in, you don 't deserve to be called a
desert racer. Man y thanks t o all th e
participating cl u bs for lea ving th e d esert
su per clean.
•
Results in Results Section.
150 Checker Miles
Limited Entry
Entries close October 1st
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